Phoenix Open Golf Odds 2026 Preview And Picks

It’s Super Bowl week, and popular props drive more watch and wager action including the Phoenix Open golf odds 2026 event. And while the Seahawks will beat the Patriots in Super Bowl LX, like we predicted last year with the Eagles over the Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX, top PGA pros will be firing for the flags in a boisterous environment at “The Peoples Open” in Phoenix. Betting odds, picks, props and preview are provided with initial coverage at BetOnline.

The Par 71 TPC Scottsdale course (7,261 yards) is a regular and roudy stop on Tour, and a fun one to watch and wager on for the Phoenix Open golf odds 2026 event.

Check out the odds, picks and props, which includes another tournament matchup and we’re 3-0 posting those this year at the Sony Open, The American Express and last week’s Farmers Insurance Open with another top-10 finish by our matchup pick for the third consecutive week.

Phoenix Open Odds 2026

Leading favorites and contenders golf odds from BOL and leading online sportsbooks refresh periodically and are subject to change, including on props and live/in-game betting. Odds adjust during and following rounds. World Top 30 noted (*).

• +235 Scottie Scheffler*
• +2000: Xander Schauffele*
• +2500: Cameron Young* 
• +2800: Hideki Matsuyama*
• +3000: Si Woo Kim*
• +3500: Ben Griffin*, Sam Burns*
• +4000: Maverick McNealy*, Brooks Koepka
• +4000: Harris English*, Chris Gotterup*, J.J. Spaun*
• +4500: Viktor Hovland*, Jake Knapp
• +5000: Matt Fitzpatrick*, Rickie Fowler, S. Theegala
• +5500: Collin Morikawa* 
• +6000: H. Hall, C. Conners, P. Coody, Min Woo Lee
• +6500: N. Taylor, R. Hojgaard,  M. Thorbjornsen, M. McCarty
• +7000: Kurt Kitayama, Sepp Straka*
• +7500: Wyndham Clark
• +8000: Nicolai Hojgaard, Daniel Berger, Haotong Li
• +9000: A. Novak, Sam Stevens, T. Finau, K. Mitchell, JJ Poston
• +10000-125000: Bezuidenhout, Thompson, Higgo, Homa, Penge, M. Kim, 
• Olesen, Neergaard-Petersen, Rodgers, McGreevy, Bridgeman 

72-hole winning score: Over/Under 264.5 (Par 71)

Two-time champions include Scheffler (2022, 2023), Matsuyama (2016, 2017), Koepka (2015, 2021). Last year’s runaway win by Thomas Detry (-24) was a dominant 7-shot win for his only PGA Tour victory.

The Course – Key Closing Holes

Take a hole-by-hole look at TPC Scottsdale – home of the “Greenest Show on Grass” and one of Tom Weiskopf’s greatest golf course designs. The closing stretch of holes includes:

• Island green par 5 at No. 15 with water on the left side the entire length of the fairway and green.
• Short par 3 at No. 16 with bleachers full of boisterous fans tee to green.
• Drivable risk/reward par 4 at No. 17 that Weiskopf said was his favorite drivable par 4 of the 71 he designed on all his courses.
• A drive over water on No. 18 and approach to an amoeba-shaped green surrounded by three bunkers.   

Key Stats: A pure ball-strikers course, and strokes gained and other stats of interest include:

• Ball Striking
• Off-the-Tee
• Approach
• Birdies or Better Gained

A driver-heavy course with control (OTT), firm and fast conditions, avoiding left side off tee (hazards) with tighter lies but easier to read greens. Water hazards on six holes with stretches of risk/reward holes.

Repeat success at TPC Scottsdale has this event as one of the top 3 on Tour for correlated course history.

Nine of the last 11 winners at the Phoenix Open also won either a major championship or The Players, but not last year’s runaway winner Thomas Detry, who is now playing golf on LIV.

Phoenix Open Odds 2026 Picks

Fairway’s Favorites: Burns, McNealy, Morikawa, Coody
Fairway’s Longshots: Kitayama, Berger, Stevens, N. Hojgaard

2025 McNealy, Clanton, Taylor, Young, Kitayama, Fowler

Tournament Match-up: Morikawa (+103) over Gotterup

I have some player profiles and stats as well added to the Phoenix Open golf odds 2026 tournament, and more at BetOnline.

Sam Burns finished T3 in this event in 2024, and the 29-year-olds elite putting sets him up well on pure, fast greens as his approach play with wedges has been dialed in. Burns leads the field in putting from 8-15 feet, and more birdies are needed to keep pace with lower scores. 

Maverick McNealy enters off a top 10 last week at the Farmers Insurance Open where we targeted him to go well and he won our 3rd straight posted tournament matchup bet to start 2026. The 30-year-old Stanford product and former No. 1 ranked amateur finished T6 here in Phoenix in 2024 while ranking 5th in SG: Tee-to-Green with a best opening round 65. Last year the perennially good West Coast performer finished T9 at the Phoenix Open showing he can go low shooting 63 on Saturday. McNealy has finished well on other desert courses including at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas where he resides.   

Collin Morikawa has played this event just twice with a best finish of T25 on debut in 2020 when he led the field in Tee-to-Green stats. But his strong Ball Striking should have him performing better especially in the desert where he’s most familiar. Throw out the missed cut at The Sony off a layoff, as he missed too many short putts on less preferred surface but his long irons and approach play was solid in Round 2. The 28-year-old 2-time Major champion has finished top-2 on Tour in SG: Approach four times since 2020, and his odds now offer a generous return including top 10/20 finish. Morikawa is a tournament matchup underdog to Gotterup, who is playing well and strong Off-the-Tee, but has missed the cut both times in Phoenix.   

Pierceson Coody just finished T2 at last week’s Farmers Insurance Open, where he ranked No. 1 in Off-the-Tee stats at the Farmers event. The Korn Ferry Tour graduate now has three straight top 20 finishes to start the year. The driver-heavy setup at TPC Scottsdale should add to his strength with three reachable par 5’s to score. Coody also ranks top 3 in Greens in Regulation, and his odds are still too high for this 26-year-old third-generational pro golfer and rising star. Coody joins Scheffler, Spaun, Cam Young and Si Woo Kim as top players in this field who rank top 30 in Ball Striking and above average in Birdies or Better Gained, Scrambling Gained, and Bogey Avoidance with longshots Homa, Kirk, Thompson and McCarty also in that group.    

Sam Stevens has made the cut in each of his two starts in the Phoenix Open including T28 in 2024. Now he’s playing better with a pair of top 10’s in his last four starts and two other good places while ranking top 10 in Off-the-Tee stats in three of those four starts. The 29-year-old power player has solid Tee-to-Green form with better Approach play and stats.

Akshay Bhatia has won on Tour in thin-air, altitude-type conditions, and he just turned 24 last week. Bud Cauley tied for 21st here last year, and his game has improved along with Nicolai Hojgaard, who finished T4 recently in the desert in Dubai and has strong iron play to improve in his T36 finish (-7) here on debut last year after an opening round 66. Daniel Berger tied for 2nd here last year (-17) with four strong rounds and has three other top-11 finishes in the Phoenix Open. Kurt Kitayama is another desert resident in Las Vegas who won the 2023 Arnold Palmer Invitational. He’s a very good ball striker who has played well at TPC Scottsdale with a T8 (-13) in 2024 and T23 in 2023 despite an opening round 75.

Last 2 years 2025 Phoenix Open and 2024 Phoenix Open were winning one’s on our posted matchups with the event getting out of hand with unruly fans and weather issues in 2024. See my Phoenix Open golf odds 2026 betting preview as posted at BetOnline, plus other event coverage.

Select tournament matchups and Round 1 matchups posted with more available by reaching me directly at FairwayJay@gmail.com as I add more picks and props and update more coverage as I dig deeper into strokes gained stats and weekly tournaments.

Next week it’s the first of eight Signature Events on Tour with the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, back on the rotation of courses in Monterey after last year’s wild fires and damage in the area caused the PGA Tour to move the tournament to Torrey Pines.

Golf Betting Notes and History from FairwayJay

My golf coverage and research includes use and references from sites at Data Golf along with Fantasy National, and others. I gain added information from handicappers, analysts, colleagues and media members while researching course stats and previews with previous weekly coverage in my PGA tournament updates in Forbes. That includes top golf insider Justin Ray Golf, who contributes to PGA Tour (dot com) and The Athletic with insightful stats. The site GolfStats has also has player performance charts and a player competitor tool plus added stats and previews.

I’ve added my own player profiles pieces for select majors and events including 2025 Masters, 2025 Players Championship and trends. You can review those alogn with others from 2024 in Forbes for The Player Championship and Masters top 9 and top 18 golfers plus 12 top golfers at the Open Championship at Royal Troon.